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This playlist was born out of a desire to draw on something so universal yet so intimate. Your 20s are that time in your life akin to the training wheels coming off, the free trial expiring, and the breath you hold before the plane takes off. You embrace it – all of it. The blessings, the messy, the awkward, the unexpected and the serendipity...

Being a music lover with an eclectic taste in music from all over the world, I created this playlist for the music lover who is a bit of a loner especially when your earphones are plugged in. I know this sounds cliché but hear me out for a second okay? it combines sounds from different eras in music, from different cities round the world, from different music personalities who transfer their passion not only into their music but through the speakers to the person listening...

I got into Music To kind of in an ironic way. I was looking for playlists to submit my band’s music and I noticed the become a curator tab. One Skype call later here I am getting a feel for everything and learning as I go.

Getting ready for a party? Headed to the club? Need a playlist to turn up your frat house party? Music to Take Shots & Toke Bongs Too… Gotcha covered with the best of today’s latest and greatest party jams.

There are so many different art forms in the world but none come close to the emotion and meaning which music holds and with this playlist I hope to showcase the most import tracks that I’ve come across in the past years.

I spent my childhood learning about classical music through the cello, then when I was in high school I picked up the guitar and a whole new world entered my life. After that, I got interested in audio production film scoring, leading to electronica, jazztronica, fusion, experimental music, sound art etc...

I know that we're all in one way or another dealing with day to day life, something I call the Grind!

Musically it started for me as a 12 year old kid in the UK, being told by his parents he couldn't have a plane ticket on SkyTrain and head to Woodstock in 1969 as I somehow knew it was the place to be.

Video game music has come along way since the early days of 8-bit grunts and beeps. Not that there's anything wrong with 8-bit grunts and beeps, mind you. If the Tetris soundtrack has taught us anything as a civilization it's that good music can come grunting and beeping in 8 little bits. There is a lot of great video game music out there and more people should know about it; that's the point of this playlist...

This is a collection of songs that feel like youth, like rebellion and staying out too late, like shots in a smoky bar, like dancing with a stranger. These are songs that are neon pink, liquid gold, electric blue, that buzz and sing with their own life long after you've stopped playing them.

Music is what makes the mundane bits of life—those tedious yet inevitable things, like commuting to work—bearable. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the car, and it can’t be helped. As a music geek who is stuck with a long commute, I try to make the most of it by using that time to take in a ton of music. It’s something I’ve (mostly) come to appreciate.

Our lives today are fast, and often dreary. In the everyday rut of doing well at work, or at school, our lives are halfway strung: the willingness to savour every moment but lacking the means—and I mean mostly time—to do so. We often find refuge in Netflix, to take a break from our own lives. But ever imagined what it would be like to make movies out of our own lives? Dramatic vision, I know: but that is entirely the point. Life is about drama; the roller coster ride of emotions and challenges. And like in the movies, sequence of our own lives deserve their own soundtracks...

Since the age of sixteen I always found myself curating countless discs of dance music. No matter what track, artist or genre was, if the beat was danceable, I would find myself gravitating towards it uncontrollably. Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Chic, The Village People, Justin Timberlake, Prince, Usher and Will Smith are among several artists that I would listen to. They provided that initial inspiration for me to continue with the craft. From that moment on I knew that I wanted to do something with music.

I have loved music as far back as I can remember. I have had so many ridiculous phases; from obsessing over hiphop artists such as Akon, to listening to Japanese Rock Bands from the 70s such as Theatre Brook, my taste in music has lead me to have a very open mind...

I remember being fourteen in 1986 and buying the Beatles' “Magical Mystery Tour” album. I went home, poured myself a glass of Dr. Pepper and sat down on our living room couch to look at the LP cover. Then I started playing the record. The last cut on side one, “I Am The Walrus” left me breathless. ..

When we satisfy our desire to eat, to sleep, or reproduce, our brain releases dopamine--the "feel good" neurochemical involved when we experience pleasure and reward. Turns out this same chemical is released when listening to music (aka eargasms). I will be your song dealer and this playlist contains highly concentrated musical frisson.

Sex and love relationships have fascinated me for a very long time - I see myself as a researcher and observer - whether creatively and professionally or just out of personal interest, it occupies me how technology changed our behavior and how challenging to us relationships have become.

Walking in the streets of İstanbul late at night… You hear a beautiful woman’s voice coming from a bar. She is almost reciting poems with her lyrics. You come closer to where it’s coming from. You enter the bar and the door is a portal that opens to a parallel universe. Everyone is dressed as aliens, executioners and space queens. While you are trying to understand what is happening, you look at yourself in the mirror. You are one of them now...